Muscle for Life

The health and fitness space is full of gimmicks and gimcracks that promise to help you lose weight, look sexier, and get healthier. You know, things like… -Detox teas and “cleanses” -Starvation (and overly restrictive) diets -Overhyped nutrition “hacks” (like intermittent fasting and ketogenic dieting) -Testosterone boosters -Estrogen blockers …just to name a few. The sad truth is if you simply ignored most everything published in most fitness magazines and on most fitness websites and just stuck to the basics of energy balance, macronutrient optimization, compound weightlifting, and progressive overload instead, you’d be far better for it. You’d be able to gain muscle and lose fat with ease, and you’d be able to do it eating foods and doing workouts that you actually enjoy. If you want to speed up the process, though, or optimize other aspects of your health and performance, you can go a bit further. You can take the right supplements, for example, incorporate mobility work into your exercise regimen, and t